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• ... feminist solidarity rooted in a commitment to progressive politics must include a space for rigorous critique, for dissent, orwe are doomed to reproduce in progressive communities the very forms of domination we seek to oppose.

  Bell Hooks

  Commitment, Space, Feminist

  bell hooks (2012). “Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations”, p.78, Routledge

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• No, not under the vault of another sky, not under the shelter of other wings. I was with my people then, there where my people were doomed to be.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Sky, Wings, People

  "Requiem". Poem by Anna Akhmatova, 1963.

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• Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Ignorance, Cutting, Perfect

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• I refuse to accept that Western civilization is like some hopeless old version of Microsoft DOS, doomed to freeze, then crash. I still cling to the hope that the United States is the Mac to Europe's PC, and that if one part of the West can successfully update and reboot itself, it's America.

  Niall Ferguson

  Civilization, America, Europe

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• Scientific method is the way to truth, but it affords, even in
  principle, no unique definition of truth. Any so-called pragmatic
  definition of truth is doomed to failure equally.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Truth, Science, Unique

  Willard Van Orman Quine, Patricia Smith Churchland, Dagfinn Follesdal (2013). “Word and Object”, p.21, MIT Press

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• I pant for retirement and leisure, but am doomed to inexpressible and almost unsupportable hurry.

  Sarah Siddons

  Retirement, Leisure

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• So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die.

  William Morris

  Art, Mean, Civilization

  William Morris, May Morris (2012). “The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris”, p.172, Cambridge University Press

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• Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.

  Henry Miller

  Fate, Needs, Literature

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.87, New Directions Publishing

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• Cheating is not the American way. It is small, while we are large. It is cheap, while we are richly endowed. It is destructive, while we are creative. It is doomed to fail, while our gifts and responsibilities call us to achieve. It sabotages trust and weakens the bonds of spirit and humanity, without which we perish.

  Terrence McNally

  Cheating, Responsibility, Creative

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• Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Fate, Thinking, America

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• When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and bad crops and extravagant womenfolks, 'tain't any laughing matter!

  Sinclair Lewis

  Thinking, Laughing, Grace

  "The God-Seeker". Book by Sinclair Lewis. Chapter 3, 1949.

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• We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.

  Iris Murdoch

  Time, Fate, Literature

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• There's something depressing about a young couple helplessly in love. Their state is so perfect, it must be doomed. They project such qualities on their lover that only disappointment can follow.

  Roger Ebert

  Depressing, Couple, Disappointment

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• The first person you fell in love with stole your heart. The first person you made love with stole your soul. And if these were one and the same, you were doomed.

  Jodi Picoult

  Heart, Soul, Firsts

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• The gun legislation was doomed the minute it became associated with the words common sense.

  Dana Gould

  Gun, Common Sense, Legislation

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• At first I hoped that such a technically unsound project would collapse but I soon realized it was doomed to success. Almost anything in software can be implemented, sold, and even used given enough determination. There is nothing a mere scientist can say that will stand against the flood of a hundred million dollars. But there is one quality that cannot be purchased in this way - and that is reliability. The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price which the very rich find most hard to pay.

  Tony Hoare

  Determination, Learning, Code Quality

  "The Emperor's Old Clothes". Communications of the ACM 24, dl.acm.org. February 1981.

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• Consider as sin any minute of life spent on something other than saving souls for eternity from this world doomed to destruction.

  Richard Wurmbrand

  Soul, World, Saving

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• The existing order is breaking down at a very rapid rate, and the main uncertainty is whether mankind can exert a positive role in shaping a new world order or is doomed to await collapse in a passive posture. We believe a new orderwill be born no later than early in the next century and that the death throes of the old and the birth pangs of the new will be a testing time for the human species.

  Richard A. Falk

  Believe, Order, Nwo

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• Hillary Clinton has aligned herself with Barack Obama on ISIS, Iran and the economy. It's an alliance doomed to fail. My proven record suggests that - my detailed plans will fortify our national and economic security. And my proven record as governor makes - will give you a sense that I don't make false promises.

  Jeb Bush

  Iran, Isis, Giving

  "5th Republican debate transcript, annotated: Who said what and what it meant". 2016 presidential debate in Las Vegas, Nevada, www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2015.

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• We all want to believe this American pastoral, but there's more to it. We have to be willing to exile ourselves from the fantasies and the mythology that we create around ourselves, or we're doomed to kind of innocently blunder into every country in the world and murder people.

  Bill Ayers

  Country, Believe, People

  "The Rumpus Long Interview with Bill Ayers". Interview with Scott Hutchins, therumpus.net. February 20, 2009.

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• I may be doomed to the stake and the fire, or to the scaffold tree, but it is not in me to falter if I can promote the work of emancipation.

  David Walker

  Fire, Tree, May

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• Is mathematics doomed to suffer the same fate as other sciences that have split into separate branches?... Mathematics is, in my opinion, an indivisible whole... May the new century bring with it ingenious champions and many zealous and enthusiastic disciples.

  David Hilbert

  Fate, Champion, Suffering

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• It may well be that an analysis of figures would reveal a law - the duration of a marriage is inversely proportional to the cost of the wedding. Or, to put it another way, any union celebrated with personalized toasting flutes is doomed.

  Michael Foley

  Wedding, Law, Analysis

  Michael Foley (2010). “The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life makes it Hard to be Happy”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

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• Ordinarily all desires exist in the second state of consciousness, the dreaming state. Desire is a dream and to work for a dream is doomed from the very beginning, because a dream can never become real. Even if sometimes you feel it has become almost real, it never becomes real - a dream by nature is empty. It has no substance in it.

  Rajneesh

  Dream, Real, Desire

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• An established company which, in an age demanding innovation, is not able to innovation, is doomed to decline and extinction.

  Peter Drucker

  Creativity, Innovation, Age

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